How Netware Makes a Splash

During this period, several operating systems were developed, like IBM's MVS operating system, which still dealt with SNA. However, the development of another operating system, dubbed UNIX, really paved the way for NOS everywhere. After a project to develop a large and complex system called Multics failed to get off the ground at Bell Labs in 1969, a group of Bell researchers, led by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, started work on a less ambitious but no less powerful computing system.

After a rocky first few years, Ritchie developed the C programming language, which allowed UNIX to become the first "portable" operating system, meaning it could be implemented on any computer system. The relative simplicity of the system's design and the availability of its source code turned UNIX into a darling of the academic world and a fixture on many university computer networks. Many versions of UNIX were developed, but the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) version, developed in University of California-Berkeley, became arguably the most popular, according to communications powerhouse Alcatel-Lucent.

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